The road on which the Milibands live near Kentish Town in North London is awash with large five and six-bedroom Victorian town houses that sell for in excess of £2 million.

Several properties there have gone on the market over the last few years and the sales pictures offer an insight into the real size and grandeur with which residents are familiar.

While Mr Miliband's kitchenette was incredibly ordinary, furnished with little more than a bin and a small stool, the kitchens used by his neighbours are likely to be far more akin to his "actual" family kitchen.

At the time, Rupert Sweeting, head of the country house department at Knight Frank, said: “The trend for two kitchens has been getting an awful lot bigger,” says . “More kitchens have arrived partly because people just don’t want dining rooms anymore.”

Lochie Rankin, from luxury property search agent Lichfields, added: "At the top end of the market, it is unusual now to see a property without two kitchens."